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Page 2 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER 19. The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone m Waynesville, North Carolina Tha County Seat Of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS ... . . Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marlon T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County $1.60 Six Montlw, In Haywood County 75 One Year, Outside Haywood County 2.00 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance CutereJ at the post office at Waynesville, N. C, u Second Class Hail Matter, aa provided uuder the Act of March 8, 1S79, November 20, 1914. Obituary notieea. resolutions of respect, cards of thanks, nd all notices of entertainments for profit, will be etiarjed for at the rate of ana cent per word. Nonh Carolina J PCESS ASSOCIATION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937 GIRL SCOUTS This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Girl Scout work in America. Few people realize that the organization catering to the welfare of girls has been thriv ing for a quarter of a century. The work-in Haywood County is compara tively new, although troops were started seve ral years ago, it has not been until the past 12 months that the public in general has been aware of a local unit of the national organiza tion. The Waynesville troop is sponsored by the Woman's Club, and Miss Mary Strinfield is in charge of the troop. While it would have been impossible to have carried on the work without a sponsor, the major portion of the credit for the good work must go to Miss Stringfxeld. When the Girl Scout movement started, public sentiment did not wholly put a stamp of approval on the work. It was thought that Scouting was solely for boys and that girls should be taught other things. Today, women are in every phase of work in the world. They hold high executive posi tions. They work right along with men in every field of endeavor. In fact, many of the successful movements of the country are start ed and managed by women. They are in the business world to stay. The training given to Girl Scouts is as im portant to girls as that given boys through the Boy Scout courses. We are old-fashioned enough to believe that every girl's first consideration should be a home-maker, yet we readily agree that the practical experiences they receive in Scouting will be most beneficial in the years to come. Waynesville new has about 37 girls taking Scout work. There are dozens of others anx ious to join, but limited membership under present conditions do not warrant enlarging the troop. There is no organization that makes so complete a change in a boy or girl as does Scouting. The Scouting method enables them to leave childhood and enter young manhood and womanhood with ease. They get a differ ent outlook on life through Scouting. They easily adapt themselves to fit occasions. Those engaged in training the young peo ple in Scouting have a great responsibility. They are doing a noble work. Their sole compensa tion is the pleasure they get in seeing boys and girls develop into useful young men and wo men. This community is fortunate in having two active branches of Scout work. SOMETHING NEW IN RECORDS At the present rate, the population of Hay wood County will soon be doubled what it is now. Casing our statement on the report just issued by the Health Department, we learn that during the Uwt quarter, there was an average of 4 U births f ir each death. During the quart er, 222 birth- were recorded, and 46 deaths. One interesting feature of the record that will make other sections of the state take no tice, is the fact, that in the last three months, only one colored birth was recorded in this county. Of the 222 births, physicians attend ed 211.-'y v--;.:-' We have no idea how similar records from other counties would compare with this, but we are of the opinion that it would be hard "to beat."' ,;' Now that the annual Pisgah deer hunt is in progress, a pun maker suggests that all hun ters shoot only at moving objects', and in that way, no WPA worker that happened to be in the forest would be wounded or killed. HAYWOOD HAS EYE ON JACKSON Haywood County will watch with interest the progress of the group now at work in Jack son County circulating petitions which would require the beard of elections to call an election on the establishment of liquor stores, if suffi cient number of voters sign the papers. The same method was tried in Henderson County several months ago, but the petitioners gave up. There have been several attempts made to get similar petitions started in Bun combe, but so far nothing has come of them. Thus far, no county west of Durham has voted for ABC liquor stores, and it seems doubt ful whether there will be many other elections on the question in this immediate territory, unless Jackson breaks away. Haywood's western neighbor has long been regarded as a dry-voting county, and now that a group of liquor store advocators are optimis tic enough to circulate petitions causes us to wonder if Jackson county voters have made a decided change in their views in the past few months, or whether the petition group is let ting their optimism run away with them. In either event, Haywood will take more than a passing interest in the outcome of the move. DRINKING AND DRUNKENNESS In a front page editorial, Charity And Children attempts to explain why there is less drinking at football games this year than m the past, yet it is their belief that there is more drinking throughout the state. The orphanage paper believes that there is more drinking but less drunkenness just at football games. The paper tries to explain that better foot ball teams, and keener interest by the fans has resulted in sober crowds. Perhaps that is right. Yet for our part, we believe that public senti ment, during the past few years has let down the bars as to drinking, and turned up their nose at drunkenness. But the publication of the Thomasville Orphanage explained it this way: "It is the general opinion that there is less drinking at football games in North Carolina this fall than in former times. There are few who doubt that there is more drinking in the state at this time than there has been in recent years. That calls for some kind of an explana tion. Why is it that there is more drinking generally and less drinking at football games. We think that public opinion is due the thanks. Those who now go to ball games pay real money to see the games. They pay to see a ball game and not the antics of drunks. The hilarious drunk who in former times relieved the tedium of boredom as a few people watched a poor exhibition of the sport is no longer needed. There is today something more interesting and arresting and the intensely interested onlook er does not choose to have his attention divert ed by the boisterous carryings on of some one who lacks somewhat of being a gentleman. We have at least two teams in North Carolina that are as good as the best. The other teams are better than good. The ones who attend the games have become real critics of the sport. They follow every move and know that a mo ment's diversion may mean the missing of a play that will make football history. The col lege bands help, but only help, make the occas ion. Few people go to the games to hear the bands and fewer go to see drunks. There are reasons for that fact that there is less drink ing. The college authorities disapprove, the brand of play is better and the public has de manded that drunks be eliminated so that the attendants may see the game." - THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY wELlToTEY. HnTHTKEI) "aNP EVE5 S)Ae'1 ' - y N PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT!- SAM SHUFFLE WONT BE e Qr TO I ABLE TO 60 SOUTH THIS,' 1 -AVEl. MOPE, SAMS ) WINTER HE S GOT r- BEEN A)Ai6 1 I ARTHRITIS IN J CVi V, ELABORATE PLANS V Both thumbs y V for. the . A LOCAL. GLOBE TROTTER IS TAKEM jfc--" OUT Of CIRCUIAT70M FOR THE TIME POLITICAL FRONTS -Continued from eussions with the chief t;, about routine affairs. Random SIDE GLANCES By W. CURTIS RUSS While engineers are staying awake at night trying to find ways to cut down on excess noise, there are some people who apparently thrive on it POINTED ARAGRAPHS Take for example, R. C. McBride manager of Stovall's Five and Ten Cent Store. He finds he does his best work when the clerk at the phono graph record counter is playing loud music. He gets along fine with his work until the noise stops. At that point he has to pull himself together or he would get a case of the jitters. C. N. Allen finds that he can go to sleep while listening to a loud radio program, and the clicking of train wheels over the rails is the same as a lullaby to him. As long as there is a roar to a noise, I can sleep through it, but anything shrill just pulls my eyes wide open The roar of a big press, or a train don't interfer with perfect slumber, but let a little thing like a mosquito start singing . . . . ho hum, sleep's over. . . . The other day Mrs. Charles Ray, Sr., stood watching her son Charles, trim a children's clothing window, and after a few minutes of meditation, she remarked at the rapid change that had been made in children's clothes Sfcte pointed to a boys' suit, and said that 20 years ago such a ready-made iem of clothing was unknown in stores. Everything had to be made for children. The underwear for chil dren, my, my, never heard of the stores having such. Mrs. Ray briefly, contrasted cus toms of today with those of a quarter a century ago . . . and even those who enjoyed those "good old days" some times wonder how they got by. Right now, Dan Watkins and Tom Rainer have use of perhaps more ad jectives than any one in this neck of the woods. Usually, a society editor has a book of adjectives, but when a new model car comes out, the society editors hide their books, and take notes from automobile dealers. A statement declares that every treaty is holy. Perhaps meaning shot full of holes. To a lot of drivers, the traffic stop sign "STOP" don't mean any more than "No Admittance." The President is back ;n W- u-. needing in constant toj.1 with legislative leaders ;. n,., . f nremre the nation tn- . , ' registration of unenipi(,yMj'UnJ President will make hi- ;Jn,u 1 :j v," ,u. oiuc umi. vvci me air i,n sllnj XT 1 IllL FT.L '-uuq iuic tiic ofi-viai session ,,i will convene. Rpcretarv of the Tre. -,t ' ..vc.-uij, .uorgeti thau, has discussed at length, wajI anu means uf nnance me government nronoaed pron Riirntnc .. ,i...i . corn loans without upsetting the bul gei paiancing pians. The President has on.- certain oj jecuve Daiancmg tne bu llet durini tne 38- s nscai year. Certain was the President of th nkiaofl'va nmviinn C. , chasing power for that section of thi nation wnicn ne describes as "il clothed, ill-nourished and ill-housed.' , XT i i i inoi so certain to observers was th method to be used in co-ordinatini these two objectives. The one thing people are sure to learn as the world grows older is new ways of making mistakes. Here's the latest alibi for the late home coming husband: "I've been sit ting up with a sit-down striker." The last quarter of a century has taught us that war doesn't pay and neither do the governments which engage in war. Quite frankly the suggestion of the committee of the League of Nations for a boycott of all Japanese products would, if carried out, paralyze the Japanese. Hay fever victims may take heart with a scientist's announcement that each tear destroys a million bacteria. Did you ever hear about the absent minded prof who fell in while boating and sank twice before he remembered he could swim? Pillows have been invented to fit around the necks of occupants in the back seats of cars to absorb vibrations. For the Sweet Young Things this will be unnecessary. The young man's arm: will suffice. Everybody wants to jump into a car and. go some place. Where do most of them want to go ? Principally no where in particular. The trouble is that when people play by ear, we have to listen the same way. The average man hasn't got the gumption of a one-legged wheelbar row, and that's why he is the average man. But certain was this that of thi 50 subjects discussed, taxes would bi No. 1 on the list. And if, as thi President intimated to newsna men, the objective of purchasing powl er was more important than any rl vision of the present capital gains am surplus profits taxes. Third term talk has increased administration circles with signs ol business recession. Some hijh otS cials feel the President sincerely doi not want another term ; but would ni hesitate to challenge precedent if hi other leader for his program emerge I President Roosevelt is being delum with advice and with plans for deal ing with, problems raised by the pres ent recession in business. Word cat ried back to weaken comewhat in hi conviction that balanced budget is thi answer to all of the country's present troubles. Word is being passed that the Ei construction Finance Corporation if going to demand that many borrower with maturing loans must go to thi banks ? money and will not hav their loans, renewed with the govern ment ag;ency. This is referred to a a rather quick and relatively painlesj way to get a temporary step-up ol income. The- Senate wages and hours bi!! with, which spokesmen both for or ganized labor and business find fault) appears headed for trouble in thi special session of Congress. Scientists say that the new comet travels at the rate of 400,000 miles an hour. It must be trying to keen ud the cost of living. You can tell who are the citizens who habitually scorn and snarl at everybody. They are the ones who are horrified and hurt when snarled at. The new 1938 models are beautiful ! S S!d1her 1,?th of the Com- ........ j . uuA uuok. a srooa sales- JUST A HINT Some years ago a tourist complained to a man who ran a restaurant in a small southern town that he couldn't get service: while the waitress danced with local patrons. "These people come here all the time; I may never see you again," the proprietor replied. And he never did. While there are some business men who argue that the restaurant man was right a ma jority will doubtless agree that there is much more to be said in favor of treating all custo mers alike whether they live in one's town or are merely passing through it. The tourist trade has now come to be of great importance to practically every section of this country. And those business places which are profiting most from their trade are those whose purveyors to tourists have learned that impartial courtesy and attention to towns-people and visitors alike plays the largest dividends in the end, Reids ville Review. (note adjective) they are far ahead of anything that motorists a year ago could have dreamed of. Yet, there is one drawback why is it necessary to use technical terms in describing same of the new features? And in case you are interested, the engineers are now at work on the 1939 models of course they will be guided to a large degree at the pub lic's reaction to the 1938 models. S. H. Stevenson, one-time fire chief and head man of the town's light de partment, has kindly invited me up to visit hint and see the plant where he is now working a naval powder plant in Indian Head, Md. Of course, it would be just my imagination, but I'm afraid it would be useless for me to visit in such a plant, because T would have a feeling that any minute there would be a big boom, and I would be listed among those missing. Steve, however, says the powder plant is safe as can be, and no trouble is ever experienced, because of their modern methods of manufacture. woman, with a good product Cianae in the business butlocl since President Roosevelt issued h proclamation have given rise to exj peetatioos that the House Demoeratj ic- leadership may be receptive to sud gestiona for modifying the legislation! Thi . in contrast with the aumw among the administration officials jus after adjournment, when the talk wai of eliminating same of the exemption for industries which the Senate votfl A recommendation of the w1' noliev fiplrf in the licrht of the stoc market's behavior apparently is undei way. For this reason, the Presidem message to Congress is being awaite. with more than the usual intcressi Wage and hour regulation probab. will be discussed then, it is said, 1 its relationship to the other maj" Questions Disced before the legiM-u"' Those who like to use figures for compari son can make much to do over the fact that two weeks ago last Sunday, 1,500 heard Bishop Kern preach, and that afternoon 10,000 attend ed the circus. My attention has been called to the worn place in the stone at the door of the First National Bank. Evi dently caused by, people stopping to open the door and scraping their feet before going in on' the tile floor. The floor right under the stamp window at the post office is' also show ing signs of wear. On Monday of this week, Mrs. E. J. GEARED Well made gears work together quietly, efficiently, smooth. But if they do not fit, even to the smallest frac tion of an inch, there is noise, waste motion and waste time.'" . . Every Doctor wants to work with a dru?ffit whose ideals and aims "mesh" perfectly with his own. A drug gist upon whom he can rely for wholehearted support and skillful execution of orders. AS K YOU R DO C TO R ALEXANDER 'S DRUG STORE Phones 53 & 54 v ; Opposite Post Office
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